Staedtler and Stampendous DT's Sweet Summer Blog Hop - Beautiful Butterflies

Welcome to the STAEDTLER and Stampendous Design Teams combined hop!  This week design team members from both STAEDTLER and Stampendous are sharing projects created with products from both companies.  Today, I'm sharing one of the projects I created, and will be sharing another project on Friday, May 24th.  Along with the projects shared by the STAEDTLER designers, each designer is giving away a Sweet Summer prize package!  Stampendous will be giving away a prize every day! Stampendous will randomly choose a winner from one of the comments left on the designers who are participating on that given day.  Continue reading below to see how you can enter to win!

To create the background for my card and butterfly, I used the Gelli Arts Plate and STAEDTLER Mars Grapic Markers.  I began by applying a thin layer of Gesso to my card stock, as I wanted a bit of texture on my paper, and I wanted to float the Marker colors, instead of having them absorb into my card stock.

Once the Background panel was dry, I cut the panel to size, saving the scrap piece for the butterfly.  On the layer panel, I embossed the flourish from the Jumbo Peruvian Lily from Stampendous, with Aged Teal Embossing Enamel.  The edges of the card are also embossed with same Embossing Enamel.  I embossed the word "dream" using the Vintage Lowercase alphabet, and the smallest butterfly from the Jumbo Butterfly Trio in Vintage Mahogany Embossing Tinsel.

To add a little more interest to the background, I used the Embossing with Stencils Technique from Club CR8, and embossed the Roman Letters using the Golden Sand Embossing Powder.  The embossed butterfly was cut out, sponged and popped on dimensionals over the embossed background.

I layered the stamped/embossed panel onto a White panel, then embossed the edges with Vintage Mahogany Embossing Tinsel.  Then layered onto a Cameo base card.

Details:

Stamps - Stampendous Jumbo Butterfly Trio, Jumbo Peruvian Lily, Vintage Lowercase

Card Stock - White, Cameo

Ink - Versamark, STAEDTLER Mars Graphic Markers, Ranger Gathered Twigs Distress Ink

Other - Heat Gun, Dimensionals, Ink Blending Tool, Gelli Arts Plate, Sprtiz Bottle, Brayer, Gesso, Stampendous Encusted Jewel Bronze Kit/Encrusted Jewel Teal Kit, Embossing Buddy, The Crafters Workshop Roman Letters Stencil, Diamond Stencil

As I mentioned above, each STAEDTLER designer is giving away this fabulous Sweet Summer prize package shown below!  To be eligible to win, please leave a comment on this blog post by Wednesday, May 29, 2013, 11:59pm CDT.  I'll use the Random Number generator to select a winner, and will post the winner here on my blog on Friday, May 31st, so be sure to check back to see if you've won!

The "Sweet Summer" Giveaway includes the following:

1 Set of 6 Triplus fineliners, pastel assortment

4 blocks of FIMO soft oven-bake clay in vanilla, peach, lilac and mint

1 Mars plastic eraser

1 Double hole metal pencil sharpener

1 Mars Lumograph sketch pencil

1 Pigment liner sketch pen

2 Creative idea brochures

Don't forget - Stampendous will be giving away a prize every day to one lucky winner!  The winner will be chosen from comments left on the participating designers blogs for that day. 

For more inspiration, visit the Design Team members who are participating in today's hop:



STAEDTLER DT:
April Derrick * Lisa Somerville (you are here) * Kellie Mowat

Stampendous DT:
Stampendous Impressions * Kristine Reynolds * Tobi Crawford

Thanks so much for stopping by, I'll be back on Friday with another STAEDTLER/Stampendous project.  Be sure to check the Stampendous Blog each day this week for links to the participating blogs.

Have a great day!